Employment Effects of Road Construction

Publication Subject(s)
infrastructure
road
Publication Type
Working Paper
ISBN
0 64226445 7
ISSN
1036-739X
Release date

The Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics (BTCE) is examining a number of issues in measuring the benefits of transport infrastructure investment. The issue examined in this paper is how to estimate the employment effects of road construction activity. Other papers from the same project have examined regional development effects, and certain tools for evaluating benefits.